I teach sales techniques, and after starting with a smaller company, had difficulty in communicating with the management team as well as the sales staff on how to achieve growth and success. This book was instrumental in helping us get to the next level, examine our business model, and really define who we wanted to become.
- Joan Murphy

Hello,

Good to Great is ultimately a book on how humans respond to competitive environments and for this reason is applicable to many of the scenarios we live through in the course of a lifetime.

For me personally, it has reinforced the idea to search oneself for the traits and talents that set me apart from others and does my best to make these a central part of my life effort.

Also, to have the perseverance to build and build till breakthrough, sometimes in the face of conventional thinking. So, if one truly wants to leave a legacy worth remembering you need to confront the facts of your situation and then push through to success.

How many "business" books achieve this relevance?

Thanks Jim for the many years of effort by yourself and your teams to narrow the degree of uncertainty in these important matters.

Steve
- Steve

The book resonated with me. I've applied it's info in many ways. But mostly, I constantly ask myself if what I am doing is Good or Great. If it's only good...I ask myself how I can change the current situation to make a change for the GREAT. It's simple.
- kimberly mccabe

This book inspired me to take the risk of leaving a 15 year collegiate ministry career and follow the desire to open a restaurant. Since then I have adopted the idea of "getting the right people on the bus" as I look to expand our business. Collins research and thoughts have affirmed our steps.
- Kevin Shinn

The insight into, the role discipline plays in building greatness has changed me. Discipline has become my corporate buzzword.
- Hilary Richard Sam

The book had a great influence on my thinking as I started on my own as a business owner. The book gave me the impetus or a platform for working out my operations strategy. The good to great companies' approach redefined or in fact, gave me a direction to pitch my business in the right way. The flywheel effect is particularly very appealing. Success comes in daily increments and not a big event at the start of something you initiate. All the companies that attained greatness did not do anything dramatic to reach there. They did just everything right at the fundamental level and flywheel effect sets in after you reach a critical mass. That's very appealing to me!

For anyone who want success in daily life or in business, please read this book!
- Venkatesh Krishnamoorthy

I read this book for work because my company was pushing it. When I finish reading the book, it dawn on me that finding the right people was the most critical step in any organization whether in the middle or starting or even at the very end. Every time I start something, I look for the right people first before I continue. No magic, just find the right people and your company will have the basic formula to build a great company assuming everything else is ok.
- Tuan Ta

I'm a pastor and not so much a student of business as I am a student of leadership. Good to great spoke into my vocation in so many ways. It challenged me to achieve Level 5 Leadership through drive and humility. It taught me to dig in hard and not waste momentum. It taught tough lessons that I really didn't want to learn, too. Collins' "First Who, Then What" principle taught me that great leaders will put themselves through tough days by getting the right people in the right positions and dismissing the wrong people. Honestly, as I've practiced this, those days have been my toughest, but have also been the days I felt I was a wise leader. It's also spurred our church to ask ourselves what are the few things we want to do great. Keeping our organization simple is sometimes difficult and sometimes hurts people's feelings, but has made us a stronger, healthier church. I would recommend Good to Great to any leader in any line of work!
- Jeff Myers